Book a one-on-one online session with Will: https://bit.ly/2goMRjw In this video, one of Pyramind's Ableton instructors, Will Marshall gives you three snare drum processing tricks to make them punch and stand out when mixing in Ableton Live. Throughout this tip, he makes sure to bypass his processing so that you…
Book a session with Caiti: https://bit.ly/2goMRjw In this tip, Reason instructor Caiti VerBrugge shows you how to create a wavetable bass using a resampling workflow. She also touches on three ways Reason 9 makes the process faster and easier. First, she creates a Thor Polysonic Synthesizer and loads up a…
Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.pyramind.com Join our Discord: discord.gg/2jxEWb5 “So it’s one idea - displayed multiple times, multiple ways” Back due to popular demand, Pyramind’s Chief Academic Officer Matt Donner gives us another music theory breakdown. This time, he runs us through the songwriting & arranging techniques used in…
Pyramind instructor Dan Blum discusses drums and the role they play in all genres of music. When it comes to production and arranging, you may have heard some common truisms about drums - they provide rhythm, they help keep time, etc. Dan uses multiple songs as examples to point out…
Producer, rapper, and seasoned electronic musician, Thavius Beck, gave us in an in depth look into how he is using the K-mix to produce original music and perform on tour. He live sequenced a beat while sampling opera singer Hilary Whitmore on the fly, and was able to use multiple…
An Evening with Keith McMillen Instruments featuring Thavius Beck was held at Pyramind in April 2016. The free event was open to the public and included an open house sneak peak at Keith’s latest instruments - the K-Board Pro 4, BopPad, and the K-Mix. We set up the instruments in…
“It’s so much about the network - whether it’s a direct mentorship or not - it’s about building relationships and trust.” Kevin Dusablon, PullString Kevin talks about the impact of mentorship, and how his mentor Franklin Clary transformed his audio career. He also talks about how fortunate he was to…
Book a one-on-one online session with Ryan Origin: https://bit.ly/2goMRjw SubPac’s Ryan Origin talks about how much SubPac adds to the VR experience. When another sense - touch, in this case - is added to the VR experience, your level of engagement increases because things are behaving as you would expect.…
“We are building the entire space in which you are existing in when you’re playing this game” Ashley Coull, Anki Ashley Coull, Audio Coordinator at Anki, talks about how integral audio is when it comes to robotics. Robotics without audio becomes mundane. With the Overdrive, Anki uses sound to try…
SubPac’s Sean Leonard talks about how the SubPac technology is being applied in the medical industry. Heart doctors have actually been able to use the SubPac to diagnose different types of heart disease. A contact microphone is used to feed the audio signal from the heart into the SubPac, so…
Anki’s Brian Min discusses how important audio is in relation to his company’s technology platform. In his experience, audio has always been about 5% of development - but at Anki, audio is extremely important - driving a much larger percentage of development initiatives at the company. As part of our…
PullString’s Kevin Dusablon talks about how he envisions the company's products being combined with AR and VR. He wants to see game characters talking back to players on all platforms, and thinks this would be especially useful in VR gaming. By talking to characters, you are connecting to the IP…
“VR is silly without a physical impulse - it feels “other” SubPac’s Sean Leonard talks about how feeling the sonic experience while playing a VR game enhances the experience. Ryan Origin talks about how the SubPac brings a third sense - touch - into the VR experience. As part of…
Ashley Coull, Audio Coordinator at Anki, talks about hardware being a roadmap for their development timeline. Audio Director Brian Min talks about time constraints, battery limitations, and other hurdles they face when improving their products. As part of our ongoing Mindshare series of events, Pyramind hosted an evening of groundbreaking…
Kevin Dusablon, Audio Director at PullString, explains PullString’s initial vision as a company and the inspiration behind it. He talks about his favorite IP, as well as the influence of bots and personality in the industry. As part of our ongoing Mindshare series of events, Pyramind hosted an evening of…
In this tip, game audio instructor Eric Kuehnl walks us through creating a complex footstep event in both FMOD and Wwise, and implementing the sound into Unreal Engine 4. He uses sounds that were recorded here at Pyramind - keys jingling, cloth rubbing, and footsteps that were recorded using our…
In this tip, game audio instructor Eric Kuehnl walks us through creating a gunshot event in both FMOD and Wwise. He also covers implementing the events into Unreal Engine 4. This is a great tip for those of you who are curious about a career in game audio, and want…
Book a session with Caiti: https://bit.ly/2goMRjw In this tip, our Sound Design in Reason online instructor Caiti VerBrugge walks us through three new devices included in Reason 9 - Dual Arpeggio, Note Echo, and Scales & Chords. These are not only new devices, but a whole new category of devices…
In this tip, Pyramind instructor Jerome Rossen gives us a few tips on writing music for chase scenes in films. He analyses the music in a chase scene from The Bourne Supremacy and breaks down the composition techniques utilized in the music. Jerome teaches Producing Music for Picture here at…
In this tip, Dylan Lewman and Pyramind alumni Dustin Musser (aka Frost-RAVEN) from K Theory walk us through two Propellerhead Rack Extensions: A-List Studio Drummer, and A-List Electric Guitarist Pop Chords. They also create a pop rock loop from scratch. First, they go over how you can set up A-List…
Meet Jonathan Buch - Pyramind alumni who works at Disney Interactive as a Senior Audio Coordinator. During GDC 2016, Jonathan had time to sit down with Pyramind CEO Greg Gordon and discuss various aspects of his career, as well as how his education at Pyramind helped prepare him for his…
Meet Brennan Anderson - Pyramind alumni who now works at Disney Interactive as an Audio Producer. Brennan has worked on various titles including Star Wars: Assault Team, Star Wars: Commander, Frozen Free Fall, as well as Inside Out Thought Bubbles. We had time to catch up with Brennan to talk…
Here at Pyramind our Creative Services team excels in managing the entire voice production (VO) pipeline for interactive games, mobile device voicing, corporate video and more. We interviewed voice actor Erik Braa, as well as Pyramind’s VO manager Ophylia Wispling to give you a peek into the voice production process…
Meet Jeremy Garren - Pyramind’s Lead Composer. Jeremy was a student here at Pyramind before being hired as a composer for us. He was inspired at a young age by the music he heard in his favorite video games, and wanted to connect with people in the same way with…